Sontag Surname
Approximately 5,550 people bear this surname
Sontag Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,925 | 1:123,918 | 13,187 |
| Germany | 709 | 1:113,548 | 13,978 |
| Brazil | 546 | 1:392,078 | 14,963 |
| France | 486 | 1:136,672 | 20,929 |
| Canada | 251 | 1:146,795 | 15,033 |
| Poland | 138 | 1:275,426 | 33,676 |
| England | 112 | 1:497,483 | 31,781 |
| Finland | 70 | 1:78,524 | 8,534 |
| Netherlands | 51 | 1:331,121 | 38,060 |
| Austria | 46 | 1:185,118 | 23,639 |
| Argentina | 32 | 1:1,335,732 | 76,713 |
| Luxembourg | 30 | 1:19,351 | 4,315 |
| Croatia | 29 | 1:145,814 | 20,021 |
| Sweden | 25 | 1:393,870 | 27,867 |
| Australia | 24 | 1:1,124,821 | 62,883 |
| Chile | 13 | 1:1,355,113 | 23,887 |
| Slovakia | 9 | 1:592,939 | 64,129 |
| Czechia | 6 | 1:1,772,245 | 105,647 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| Bermuda | 5 | 1:13,056 | 1,849 |
| Israel | 4 | 1:2,139,408 | 95,907 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| French Polynesia | 4 | 1:70,201 | 4,444 |
| Romania | 3 | 1:6,692,623 | 78,504 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 428 | 1:117,333 | 11,513 |
The alternate forms: Sontág (55) are calculated separately.
Sontag (24) may also be a first name.
Sontag Demographics
Average Sontag Salary in
United States
$49,972 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sontag Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sontag Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sontag is carried by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Sontág. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sontag? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 86,765th most widespread surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 1,313,071 people. It occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 68 percent of Sontag live; 57 percent live in North America and 57 percent live in Anglo-North America. Sontag is also the 2,187,323rd most frequently used forename throughout the world. It is borne by 24 people.
The last name Sontag is most frequent in The United States, where it is borne by 2,925 people, or 1 in 123,918. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: New York, where 9 percent live, California, where 9 percent live and Missouri, where 8 percent live. Outside of The United States this surname is found in 44 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 13 percent live and Brazil, where 10 percent live.
Sontag Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Sontag has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Sontag surname increased 683 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it increased 5,600 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Sontag Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Sontag last name are 11.13% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 57.9% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Sontag earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 15.81% more than the national average, earning $49,972 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.64% more than the national average, earning $50,995 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sontag
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